Systemic Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

forming a new program or initiative and you need to set up a system that can run on its own. Or, number two, you end up starting up a new organization. Both are skills that require entrepreneurship. There are a lot of issues in our world... View Details

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

meet with entrepreneurs who are trying to figure out what portion of the $70 trillion global economy they can dominate. Within the $1 trillion marketing industry, the impact of software eating marketing has now reached the board room.... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

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Vaughn Bryant Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results The Opportunity for Service and to Create View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

New Yorker at heart, and a curious and resourceful learner. All of these pieces of her identity have shaped the leader she is today and the impact she makes in her company and community. Plugging into Support to Carve Her Path Born and... View Details

2020
Article

Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research

By: Jody Grewal and George Serafeim

We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement is the least developed of the three and... View Details

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus dollar missions like Viking (which... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

allowable constraints. The method then designs a point system that is based on the selected priority criteria and approximately maximizes medical efficiency, i.e., life year gains from transplant, while simultaneously enforcing selected... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

encountered a different set of challenges—ones that made me realize the universal complexities of delivering care. These early experiences planted a seed in me: a deep desire to improve healthcare systems and make a meaningful impact.... View Details

27 Apr 2017
News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

lieutenant on the sub who managed teams of mechanical systems experts—men usually more experienced than she. “I tried to go in with a sense of humility but also with a level of confidence,” she explains. Strobel later served as an Office... View Details

08 Jan 2019
Blog Post

New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019

inbound requests from friends, colleagues, and other jobseekers can often be impactful as well. It's a great way to give back to students at HBS or your undergraduate institution. It's also a great opportunity to practice telling your... View Details

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details

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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

importance of this research can have a great and tangible impact on the quality of life of society. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: As an INTEL-ISEF Finalist, I developed a View Details

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

perceptions of the organizational climate for improvement than the frontline workers who observed and lived those problems every day. However, there were surprises, too. Identifying many problems to correct had a somewhat negative impact... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Di Bai

and social contexts, and strike a balance among multiple responsibilities. This is especially significant for people like me coming from developing countries where the legal and regulatory systems are not well established. We have to do... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

Group (CRG) has helped faculty members source case leads beyond traditional networks. With the support of the Global Initiative and Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, the CRG has created a new case tracking system to help match faculty... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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